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JAMES LEFEBER, OF CAMBRIDGE CITY, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 67,991, dated August 20, 1867.

IMPROVED MEAT-MASHER.

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lO ALL WHOM IT MAY `CONGERN:

Be it known that I, JAMES LEFEBER, of Cambridge `City, in the county of Wayne, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Meat-Masher; and I do hereby declare that the f-'ollowin'g is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the/art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilcation, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of my improved meat-masher taken in the line xx, fig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts.

This invention relates to a. new and useful improvement in the construction of a machine for meshing or breaking the bre of beefsteak or other meat in order to make it tender, and consists in a heavy metal corrugated roller hung in a hinged frame over a sliding plate provided with teeth in which the veorrugations of the roller engage to operate on the meat, as hereinafter-more particularly described.

A represents a long wooden 4stand or fra-me, on the inside of which is a cast-iron plate, a, provided with rows of teetlr that run parallel transversely of the plate, and intersect each other or break joints longitudinally, as shown in iig. 2. The plate a is made as large as may be required for a beefsteak, and rests upon ways bb within the frame A, so that it may slide back and forth upon them easily, and, if desired, friction-rollers may be placed underit. On one end of the frame A a frame, B, is hinged at d, so that it may lie dat on the top of the frame A and rise at one end when lifted. lOn the free Vend of the frame B a. heavy cast-iron roller, C, is

hung, having deep corrugations or iutings running lengthwise, which like cogs onel wheel engage and t between the parallel rows of teeth on the plate a, so that the roller when turned by the hand-crank c shall move the plate a back and forth on the ways in the frame A. It will ble seen that by this Yarrangement of the roller C and plate a, if -a beefsteak'he laid upon the plate, and the roller B is turned around by the crank in opposite directions, the eorrugations on the roller will engage in the teeth on the plate and move it back and forth, while at the same time the meat will be crushed or mashed so as to thoroughly break the libre. And if there should be a bone in the meat it will oier no injurious obstruction, as the frame will rise on the hinges to let it pass. 4

Having described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 4 The toothed sliding plate a, in combination with the corrugated rollerY C, and the hinged frame B, arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

i i JAMES LEFEBER,

Witnesses:

Tiros. Newer, JACOB H. Jessup. 

